Rotten
...this smells like a script slapped together around a toy-product launch.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Small Soldiers
Big movie.
1998 · 1h 50m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Joe Dante
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Small Soldiers
Overview
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Director and cast
- Joe Dante Director
- Gregory Smith as Alan Abernathy
- Kirsten Dunst as Christy Fimple
- Denis Leary as Gil Mars
- Phil Hartman as Phil Fimple
- David Cross as Irwin Wayfair
- Jay Mohr as Larry Benson
- Kevin Dunn as Stuart Abernathy
- Ann Magnuson as Irene Abernathy
- Wendy Schaal as Marion Fimple
- Jacob Smith as Timmy Fimple
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Though it starts promisingly, the picture ends as a standoff between the affection Dante and company bring to the project and its increasingly frenetic and tiresome emphasis on what special effects can make its little people do.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
As with many films in which special effects are the real stars, the technology here commands more respect and interest than the material otherwise warrants.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
I can't think of a Hollywood entertainment I've enjoyed as much all year, and both audiences I saw the movie with seemed delighted as well.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Fortunately, it's possible to ignore the morals entirely and simply enjoy the filmmakers' skill at creating carefully contained mayhem in a microcosm.
Scott Rosenberg, Salon.com
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